Forums on Writing and Teaching
"Bringing to the campus excellent teachers"
--Geraldine Lyon Owen '27
Schedule
*All readings take place at 6 p.m. in the Alumni House
9/21 Karen Salyer McElmurray
Karen Salyer McElmurray's newest novel is The Motel of the Stars (Sarabande Books). The novel has been nominated for The Weatherford Prize in Fiction and was a Lit Life Novel of the Year for 2008. She is also the author of Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey, recipient of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven,winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. Associate professor in creative writing at Georgia College and State University, McElmurray is creative nonfiction editor for Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Culture.
10/19 Katharyn Privett-Duren
Katharyn Privett-Duren teaches English at Auburn University. Her specialties include Rhetoric, Feminism, Goddess Iconography, and American Literature. She is the author of "Sacred Cyborgs and Twentieth-Century Goddesses" (Reconstruction: http://reconstruction.eserver.org/074/privett.shtml) and "Dystopic Bodies and Enslaved Motherhood" (Women: A Cultural Review). She also has published short fiction that explores and narrates the inner life of a single mother.
11/16 Michael White
Michael White's poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Best American Poetry. He was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Utah, and has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Art Council. He teaches at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he lives.
2/15 Carrie Brown
Carrie Brown is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She lives in Virginia with her husband, the novelist John Gregory Brown, and their three children. She teaches at Sweet Briar College.
3/15 Panel of Lynchburg College Faculty Poets
LC's faculty muses hold forth on the challenges of the craft and cultivating it in the classroom.
4/19 Catherine Waitinas
Catherine Waitinas is assistant professor of English at California Polytechnic State University. Her teaching and research specializations include Walt Whitman and early American women writers. In addition to authoring publications on T.S. Eliot's poetry and on teaching with the Whitman online archive (www.whitmanarchive.org), she composed Unit 16 of the Norton Anthology of American Literature's American Passages project (http://www.learner.org/amerpass/).